George Elliott Clarke Quotes

• Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Defining, Define Yourself

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The way racism works in Canada, it's very subtle. You may feel you're a victim of racism or have experienced racism, but you can't necessarily prove it - unless you get a [white] friend to go check out that rental, go check out that job, whatever. Unless you're willing to really dig to prove you're a victim of racism, it might be difficult to do that. And so what you're dealing with then is feeling, it's emotion.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Jobs, White, Racism

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• A symbolic victory is still a victory.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Victory, Symbolic, Stills

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• The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Epic, Black, Heirs

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• Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Sports, Flags, Shapes

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• All books are merely delayed dust.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Book, Dust, Delayed

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• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Wind

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• Los primeros años del siglo XX fueron probablemente los del apogeo de la supremacía blanca mundial -la voy a llamar así porque así es como la gente pensaba en ella- y, para ser más específicos, de la supremacía anglosajona: La idea de que los protestantes anglosajones blancos estaban en la cima del mundo, representando el mayor logro posible para toda la humanidad, con las teorías de Darwin siendo utilizadas para apuntalar esta creencia.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Ideas, White, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Struggle, Boxing, Important

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Sports, Stars, Team

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Donna E. Smyth: aventuras con las palabras; siempre está haciendo algo nuevo y único. Partiendo de su moralidad visceral, sus historias son sorprendentes, angustiosas, provocativas: combina el bello estilo de Angela Carter con las atmósferas malévolas de Patricia Highsmith. Smyth destroza los tópicos y descarta la mera sociología. Sabe que el placer está asediado por el terror. Nos cuenta lo que no queremos saber, pero necesitamos saber. La escritura de Smyth nos perturba, enriquecedoramente, porque la verdad nunca puede estar en paz con el lenguaje.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Beautiful, Writing, Adventure

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• Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Sports, People, Interesting

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Love, Rain, Butterfly

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• I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Sports, Struggle, Athlete

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Struggle, Player, Tennis

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Athlete, Race, Play

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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